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Richard—who is now the vice-chancellor of Cambridge, the highest non-ceremonial post at the school—is one of the four names being most seriously considered by the presidential search committee, according to two individuals familiar with the committee's activities...
...Richard's office, in a statement released today, said: "In the wake of media speculation, the Vice Chancellor reaffirms her deep and unequivocal commitment to the University of Cambridge and to completing the full term of her appointment, which ends...
...Richard signed on to a seven-year term as vice-chancellor of Cambridge, the second-oldest university in the English-speaking world and one with a student body that is more than 5,000 larger than Harvard's. Cambridge's ceremonial chancellorship is held by Prince Philip, the husband of Queen Elizabeth...
...under contract to serve as vice-chancellor of Cambridge through 2010. (The chancellorship is a ceremonial post held by Queen Elizabeth II’s husband, Prince Philip.) One former colleague suggests that before returning to England in 2003, Richard, who is 58, insisted that her term at Cambridge last seven years, rather than the expected five...
When Richard arrived in Cambridge in the summer of 2003, she did what any proper Oxbridge don would do: she bought a bicycle. Shortly after being inaugurated as the 344th vice-chancellor of Cambridge—the first woman to hold the position full-time in Cambridge’s nearly 800-year history—Richard rode that bicycle into a cow. The pink pages of London’s Financial Times picked up the story...